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    0 starseric | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 04 2006 | elliot perlman, books, writing, Australia
    Elliot Perlman Books and Information

    This is the reference page an Australian Bookstore made for Elliot Perlman. It includes links to all of his current works as well as a bit more information about him. This was a great quote about wht he was trying to do with "Seven Types of Ambiguity," the novel I just read:

    Quoted: "…I don't shrink from the fact that this is an attempt, anyway, to be a serious examination of contemporary Australian society, and I'm not saying that Australia needs me to do it. I think Australia needs 'people' to do it, generally. And I'll stick my neck out and say I don't think it's done often enough. And that's not to criticise any particular writers or any particular book, because there's some outstanding writers of Australian literary fiction, so there's no sub-text in here. I'm not pointing the finger at anybody. I'm just saying that if we, as a society, aggregated, don't produce anybody that's writing about all the terrible things that have been happening to our society in the last ten or twenty years; you've got to ask questions about the maturity of our culture."

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